Linked by Jeremy LaCroix on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 07:02 UTC
During the majority of my time working with computers, Windows was the operating system of choice. Reason being, it's all I've known. In 2002, I took a college course titled "Linux Administration" which entitled me to a few cd-roms of Redhat 7.x. While this course was nothing more than a few extra credits for me, I fell in love with Linux and went through the entire textbook a week into the class. It was a nice feeling to use something "different" than what I was used to.
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I agreed with the author of the article.
From what I could understand, (by reading between the lines), the author is someone who uses another os like windows or mac os, he is not a total linux or unix user.
He was looking for a way to get what he wanted/needed from linux so he could have the same degree of use that he does with his current system.
Redhat and Suse... not my choices, but they are the two most popular distros that Joe Public will have heard of. They are the ones that are being sold in PC World etc.
So if a casual Windows user sees a packaged version of Linux with a manual he would buy that if he wanted a quick introduction to Linux.
This is where Linux fails more than any other reason.
Linspire and Xandros and possible even Lycoris are not what most Linux users would call excellent systems, they are pretty basic. However, they are just what Joe Public needs.
If any of the above distros manages to start selling through PC World, in a box, with a manual, then things will be different. There will be a much bigger uptake of Linux.
I think if the author had tried any of the three distros I mentioned, then his whole article would have been a completely different story.